young’s TRAVELS IN FRANCE.
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The whole commerce of France with the Baltic is faid to employ fix or feven hun-dred (hips of two hundreds tons*.
At the period of the Revolution the date of the trade to India was as follows:Imports from India on a medium of 1785, 1786, and 1787, 34,700,000In 1788, _____ 33,300,000
Merchandize.
Indian manufactures, —
Spices, tea and coffee of Moka,Silk, cotton, ivory, woods,China , &c. See. — —v
Drugs, — —
livres.
26,600,000
6,000,000
1,150,000
493 j co °
367,000
34,610,0.0
Exports from France at fame time, — — 17,400,000 f
Exports to the ifles of France and Bourbon on an average
of the fame three years, — — — 4,600,000
Imports, — — — — 2,700,000
By the regulation of May 1787, confirmed by the National Aflembly, Port Louis , inthe Ifle of France is made free to foreign {hips, by which means it is expe&ed that that,port will become an entrepot for the Indian trade.
Navigation .
There is not much reafon for modern readers to be folicitous concerning the com-merce or navigation of any country; we may reft affured, that the trading fpiritwhich has feized all nations, will make the governments anxious to promote, as muchas poffible, whatever interefts their commerce, though their agriculture is, at the famemoment, in the loweft ftate of poverty and negleft. All the Englilh authorities I havemet with, refpeCting the navigation of France , are of a very old date; perfons who arecurious in thefe fpeculations, will probably be pleafed with the following account:
Ships in France cleared outwards in 1788.
For the Levant and coaft of Barbary,
Whale fifhery, -- -
Elerring fifliery, - — —
Mackarel fifhery, -
Frefti both in the ocean and Mediterranean,
Cod, - -- -
All parts of Europe and the American States ,
Weft Indies, - -
Eaft-Indies, China, Ifles of France and Bourbon, both bycompany and oiherways, - -
Ships.
Tons.
366
— 45 3 285
*4
— 35232
33 °
— 9,804
437
— 4,754
1,441
- 45289
2,668
“ 11,596
432
' 4 i 5446
2,058
— 128,756
c 77
— <90,753
io 5
~ 355227
86
— 375157
8,588
— 5 1 6,279
•\De la Balance du Commerce, tom. i. p, 282.
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*■ Cormeie Rtcherchesfur let Finances,.tom. i. g. 362,